bearing

Meaning

Verb

present participle and gerund of bear

Adj

1. (in-compounds, not-comparable) That bears (some specified thing).
2. (not-comparable) Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.

Noun

1. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
2. The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
3. (especially, in-plural) One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
4. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
5. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
6. That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
7. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
8. (proscribed) The unsupported span.
9. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.

Synonyms

supporting

carrying

manner

demeanor

behavior

behaviour

carriage

holding

deportment

attitude

sustaining

demeanour

manners

posture

conveying

conduct

comportment

enduring

mien

possessing

connection

endurance

appearance

bringing forth

preserving

relationship

wearing

presence

bearer

support

movements

aspect

orientation

pier

armorial bearing

air

having

heading

prop

heraldic bearing

relation

direction

giving birth

load-bearing

presenting

link

🔗

action

aim

buttress

tolerance

ball bearing

tendency

movement

assuming

look

protecting

charge

purport

patient

bushing

exposure

sufferance

maintaining

forbearance

azimuth

holding up

abutment

brace

investing

association

approach

shape

way

poise

position

yielding

figure

upholding

trend

presence of mind

mounting

nexus

nourishing

observing

operation

parturition

patience

pedestal

pertinence

pertinency

pillar

place

port

pressure

productive

productiveness

purchase

🛍️

rank

ratio

reference

regard

relevance

relevancy

rest

roller bearing

scope

semantics

sense

shoes

significance

situation

solid

stanchion

stand

standing

station

🚉

status

stay

stays

steady

stiff

stock

stocking

stocky

stodgy

storage

storing

stout

strong

sturdy

style

substance

substantial

suffering

supported

thrust

tie-in

tolerating

touch

transference

treatment

vector

warehousing

whereabouts

B

B

child bearing

compass bearing

one’s daily life

policy

act of holding

as in

of support

upper bearing

con-taining

lifting up

military position

philosophical system

spatial relation

base bearing

prop stay

fulcrum bearing

lug support

supporting block

supporting surface

carrying plane

supporting seat

support abutment

pecker block

binding face

catch point

placement azimuth

tenue

haviour

portance

behavior

behaviour

demeanor

meaning

demeanour

account

acting

affiliation

affinity

aftermath

alliance

allowance

b

b

badge

ball-bearing

base

bear

🐻

bearing surface

bed

🛏️

bedding

bracket

bridge

capacity

carry

character

cleat

coherence

communion

concern

conjunction

connectedness

connectivity

connexion

consequence

consistence

consistency

contact

context

corollary

countenance

course

crop

dealings

delivering

depot

dignity

drive

emblem

endowed

essence

execution

experience

fashion

feeling

fertile

firm

foothold

footstep

forgiving

fructification

fruitage

fruition

gait

gesture

granting

hand

✋

hearty

heavy

heavy-duty

holder

import

interconnection

keeping

liaison

lie

linkage

linkup

magnitude

marbles

mode

moment

motion

motions

mount

Translations

Lager

Benehmen

roulement

maintien

lager

Betragen

cojinete

Verhalten

Haltung

conduite

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɛə̯ɹɪŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: beringe

Inherited from Old English: berende

Cognate with Old English: bǣrende

Inherited from Middle English: bering

In summary

From Middle English beringe, berynge, berende, berande, berand, from Old English berende (“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonym Old English bǣrende), from Proto-Germanic *berandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear; carry”), equivalent to bear + -ing.